Well, so much for ham radio.  That surely points to the downfall of modern
technology.  Lose power, lose repeaters, lose communication.

Andy  WQ6R

At 03:55 AM 9/27/02 +600, you wrote:
>Well, we all weathered the storm all right.  I was without power
>for about 17 hours from a quarter to 7 Wednesday night till about
>1 P.M> yesterday afternoon.  The strange thing about that was that
>at the time power went out in my neighborhood there was nothing
>going on.  It was steadily raining, but there was no wind activity
>nor were their any tree limbs down that I know of, and this was
>confirmed by one of my neighbors who called a local radio talk
>show.
>
>anyway, I went to a friend's house who didn't loose power and
>stayed there for about 9 hours, but I am back home now.  So other
>than some time without power I didn't receive any flood damage.
>There was no water in my apartment although the street was flooded
>for a time and I didn't loose any property.
>
>I did not participate in any ham related activity this time, and I
>don't even know if there was any in my area as some of the
>repeaters went down.  But that's the story from New Orleans.
>
>Harvey
>"evil people prosper because good people do nothing."
>
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